Annastacia Palaszczuk
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Annastacia Palaszczuk, born July 1969, is an Australian politician. She has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly since September 2006, representing the electorate of Inala.
Palaszczuk was raised in the Brisbane suburb of Durack, the daughter of veteran state Labor MP Henry Palaszczuk. She worked as a policy advisor to a number of Labor ministers, including Minister for Communities, Disabilities and Seniors Warren Pitt and former Minister for the Environment Dean Wells. She later decided to have a career in the law, and was studying for admission as a solicitor when her father announced his intention to retire at the 2006 election.
In the wake of her father's retirement, Palaszczuk contested and won Labor preselection for her father's seat of Inala, the safest Labor seat in Queensland, and was elected with a margin of more than 30%. She will take up her seat in parliament when it resumes in the coming weeks.
